Most US internet users briefly experienced the dark, frustrating realities of a world without Google services last night. While Google has since fixed its outage issues, new reports to suggest outages may be linked to an “electrical accident” at the Council Bluffs, Iowa data center that seriously injured at least three electricians. Google blamed outages in a software update.
Internet outage monitoring site Downdetector launches reporting accounts The percentage of Google outages was around 9:00 EST on Monday evening, with user reports hitting over 40,000 in less than an hour. The outages ran the range of Google products and blocked thousands of people from accessing search, Google’s core product, or Google Maps. Users were also reportedly experiencing issues with Gmail and Google images. The outages seemed mostly limited to US-based users, but Bloomberg notebook search issues also affected some users in Taiwan and Japan. Outage reports began to subside after about two hours.
Officially, Google blames the sudden outages with a “software update”.
“We are aware of a software update issue that occurred late in the afternoon with Pacific Time and briefly impacted the availability of Google search and Maps,” Google said. Declaration IT Guard. “We apologize for the inconvenience. We have worked to resolve the issue quickly and our services are now back online.”
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This is where things get a little blurry. Users were at the same time that Google started experiencing outages. reported Council Bluffs is dealing with a massive electrical fire at its data center that has sent at least three electricians to the hospital with critical injuries. engineers according to this SF Gate was reportedly working at a substation close to data centers when the explosion occurred. It was reported that one of the electricians was airlifted to a local hospital, while the other two were brought by ambulances to treat their injuries. While it’s not yet clear whether this boom has any impact on Google’s larger outage, it’s worth noting that the Council Bluffs data center is one of the most important. the biggest from the company’s 14 data centers spread across the United States.
Google did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment, but acknowledged the incident in a statement sent to SF Gate.
“We are aware of an electrical incident that occurred today at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which injured three people currently being treated,” Google said. Said. “The health and safety of all employees is our absolute priority and we are working closely with partners and local authorities to thoroughly investigate the situation and provide assistance as needed.”
Any disruption to Google’s search engine, even minor ones, weighs tremendously due to the company’s obscene search engine market share choke. Researchers estimate Google accounts as: somewhere between 61.7% and 92% of searches worldwide.
This search on google The usage area of the world internet is concentrated only in the mobile age. Android-equipped devices, according to this research firm Gartner accounted for 82% of the global smartphone OS market share at the end of 2016, and the vast majority of these phones had Google as their default search engine.. Google’s gloves are also reportedly on all Apple iOS products. Last year, the search giant reportedly Paid about $15 billion to Apple To remain the default search engine in Apple’s Safari browser.
This is a developing story.
